At  2:50 PM 8/21/97 -0400, Jim Marsico 516-595-5879 wrote:
>I'm doing a survey to determine how others in industry are cleaning (assuming
>you do clean) flux residue from hand soldering operations like soldering wires
>to terminals on small sub-assemblies, etc.  I'm really interested in military
>hardware, but all can reply.  My questions are as follows:
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>1) Military or Commercial?
Military and Space
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>2) Clean or no clean?
Clean
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>3) What flux type are you using?
RMA
>
>4) Hand or machine cleaning?
Hand cleaning periodically during soldering operations.  Final cleaning by
vapor degreasing
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>5) What chemical or solvent are you using?
Hand clean with IPA and/or acetone.  Vapor degrease with Asahikleen AK225AES
>
>6) Are you happy with your present cleaning process?
Trying to reduce the material costs but otherwise satisfied
>
>7) Any additional comments?
>
>Thanks for your time and cooperation.  I will tabulate all of the results and
>post it on Technet when complete.
>
>Jim Marsico
>(516) 595-5879
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